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New neighbouring right to be introduced in Germany
Posted on 三月 6, 2012 by adminsampsung in CopyrightBy Monika to The 1709 Blog on 3/06/2012 The German coalition government has decided to create a new neighbouring right for newspaper publishers. In the future, commercial Internet service providers, such as search engine providers and news aggregators, shall pay an equitable remuneration to publishers for the use of media products such as newspaper articles. The move [...]
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Franklin Pierce Center for IP: Antique Rare IP Library e-Treatise Reading Room
Posted on 三月 6, 2012 by adminsampsung in Copyright, Patent, TrademarkBy Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property A new section of the Pierce Law IP Mall that is a signficant collection of around 250 old Intellectual Property Treatises. Below are the links to each of the subsets that the treatise are broken into: Copyright, General, Patent and Trademark. If you have any questions, please email Professor Cavicchi [...]
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There Can Be No ‘Balance’ In The Entirely Unbalanced System Of Copyright
Posted on 三月 5, 2012 by adminsampsung in Copyrightby Mike Masnick @ Techdirt For many years now, I’ve argued against the idea of calling for “balance” in copyright law — because I don’t think it makes much sense. In articles from 2007, 2009 and 2011, I argued that by focusing on “balance” — as many critics of copyright law do today — we make a huge mistake. Arguing for [...]
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Would Germany and France find the red bus photo infringed?
Posted on 三月 5, 2012 by adminsampsung in CopyrightBy Rosie Burbidge @ The Art and Artifice Again the inspiration for this post comes from the 1709 blog organised red bus seminar last week. Brigitte Lindner provided a fascinating comparison of the way the German and French courts would have approached the red bus problem. A very general summary of her talk is below. Subsistence France follows a fairly [...]
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Behind the music: Why artists mustn’t be drawn into an MP3 site’s legal fight
Posted on 三月 5, 2012 by adminsampsung in CopyrightBy The Guardian Music Blog Is it in the best interests of musicians to help the founder of an online music locker in his copyright battle with EMI? Michael Robertson wants to help “long suffering artists” reclaim ownership of their work. At least, that’s what the founder of MP3.com and current CEO of MP3Tunes wrote [...]
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